Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1900 — Page 3

Headache for Forty Years. For forty rears I suffered from sick head•4ie A year ago I began using Celery King. The result was gratifying and surprising, ray headaches leaving at once. The headaches n«“d to return every seventh day, but, thanks m Celery King, I have had but one beadache „ the last eleven months. I know that what cured me will help others.—Mrs. John D. Van Keuren, Saugerties. N. x . Celerv King cures < 'onstipation, and Nerve, Stomach, Liver and Kidney diseases. 2

Miss Marjie Hanna of Fort Wayne, Sundayed in the city. J. E. Moser, the photographer, returned from Indianapolis last Thursday. Charles Coverdale, of Bluffton, was here looking after insurance business last week. . It is time for the ladies, bless ’em, to be getting their ages in order for the curious census enumerator. \V. A. Kuebler was down town last Thursday for the first time for several weeks, having been confined to the house by illness. M. B. Smith, Butternut, Mich., says, ■ DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the verv best pills I ever used for costivenes’s, liver and bowel trouble. Smith, Yager & Falk. ts Charles Bell, Dick Christen and Mike Miebers formed a hunting party that made a fruitless search for duck along the St. Marys river Satuaday morning. When you want something to heal a burn, or sore, or a cut, why not try Banner Salve, which is guaranteed the most healing ointment in the world. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m Forty young lady students of the Indiana University are in quarantine. They composed a party that attended a reception last Friday evening, and Miss Clara Davis, one of their number. is found to have the smallpox. To secure the original witch hazel salve, ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, well known as a certain cure for piles, and skin diseases. Beware of worthless counterfeits. They are dangerous. Smith, Yager & Falk, ts Mrs. John Meibers Sr. and son are the guests of relatives at Louisville, I Ky., having left for that destination i yesterday. They will be absent about a week. Low Rate of Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest, payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any interest paying time. No delay in I making loans. F. M. Schirmeyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf

THIS $65.00 BUGGY FREE! \ A\ zri •\ \\/X\mbi . > Y ZwWa taf iHwWs . .'jjfta wfe h '-\ V/' \ > / v h \ \ z 'w 'CX.P \ :/ X ./ \ \ J \ V' t ■' A Ticket with each 50c purchase. To SV!y Customers.... I have in stock a complete line of Men s, Women s and Children’s shoes and rubbersof a very highgrade.... I will guarantee to sell cheaper than any one else will sell the same grade. I his is worthy of your consideration, so please call and examine the shoes and get prices.... We will take great pleasure in showing you goods, also the buggy and explain the mattei fudy. J. D. HOLAAAN, S OL BILLMAN, Cobbler. Firßt door nOrth ° f Bremerkam P’ s store

The “Two Little Vagrants” went to Frankfort_last Friday, l > IlTrryStudabaker of Bluffton, Sundayed in the city, the guest of numerous friends. Hou. L. A. Huffman returned to his home at Marion last Friday, after holding court here several days. Every voter in the county should got a book on Coin’s “Money, Trusts and Imperialism.” Sold by Fred Mayer at this office. Barney Kalver & Son, four doors , south of People’s liverp barn, pay the I highest prices for bides, pelts, furs. I iron, metal, rubber, rags, Ac. 48m6 j Adam Engle and wife of Fairfield I county, Ohio, were visiting in the city (several days last week with Auditorelect Boch and wife. For quick and positive relief from 1 a cough or cold Dr. Sawver’s Wild Cherry and Tar has no equal. Try ' it and you will recommend it. Nactitrieb & Fuelling. m SylvesterSeovel, thenewspaper man vvho leaped into notoriety during the Spanish-American war by striking ’ General Shafter in the face, is selling ' road scrapers in Cuba. Dr. Sawyer’s Wild Cherry and Tar cures because it was made to cure. It soothes and relieves the irritated condition of throat and lungs. A trial will prove it. Nachtrieb & Fuelling. m > The retiring county clerk at Jeffersonville. Ind., estimates that he averaged 100 licenses a month to eloping ; couples, mostly from Kentucky, which would make a total of 4,800 licenses during his term of four years. Eugene J. Hall, the poet and publisher, says that one dose of Foley’s Honey and Tar restored his voice when hoarseness threatened to prevent his lecture at Central Music Hall Chicago. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m The assessor is almost due'and the man will be sure to come to your house after first of April, and unless the tax has been paid on your dog there may be danger of having his head chopped off. The township assessor has quite a difficult task, but he will have his eye on the canines. Backache is the first indication of kidney trouble. Urinary disorders diabetes, and even Bright’s disease follow unless promptly checked. Nothing better to make perfect kidneys than Dr Sawyer’s Ukatine. Nachtrieb & Fuelling. m The “Two Little Vagrants” at Bosse’s opera house last Thursday evening was a first class show and the ' audience was highly pleased. Every ! member of the company was an actor of ability and they plajed their parts to perfection. A man named E. Bresson, of Pressonville, Kans., wrote a letter the other day, saying the opinion of everybody iin his town who has used Foley’s | Honey and Tar is, that it is the very j best medicine for la grippe, colds, | coughs, etc. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m

John Heller wasat Bluffton on business Friday afternoon. Joseph Beatty, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, was here on business last Friday. Miss Jessie Morrow of Bluffton, Sundayed with Mrs. Jessie Townsend and other friends. Hicks says March will close with one of themostdestructivesleet storms of the winter in the northern states. Charles Smith, the horse trader, lost two horses within an hour Wednesday of last week. He believes they were poisoned. Too many people lose valuable time in experimenting with cough and cold cures. They should take Foley’s Honey and Tar bet >re it is too late. Holthouse, Callow <L Co. m Constable Pennington captured five tramps Thursday morning and waltzed them to Jail. They were released the next morning on a promise to leave town at once, which they did. Going down hill. People suffering from kidney diseases feel a gradual but steady loss of vitality. They should lose no time in trying Foley’s Kidney Cure. It is guaranteed. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m Every Boer who is able to carry a gun is fighting in the Transvaal. In a recent battle a Boer boy only 12 years old was taken by the Brittish. He had been in the thickest of the fight, and had both legs broken by a bullet. There is no medicine that has yet been discovered that has virtues deserving to be compared with Dr. Sawyer’s Wild Cherry and Tar, for bad cases of chronic bronchitis, consumption, or any cough or cold. Nachtrieb & Fuelling. m A Paris editor refers to Lord Robert’s victory in the following sarcastic manner: “What a glorious victory' Three thousand starving men hampered by women and children, with ammunition exhausted, crushed by forty thousand well fed troops stuffed with rum, whisky, plum pudding, beef and pale ale.” Waldalla, N. D., Mar. 15, 1898 For loss of appetite, general debility and convalescence after any illness, there is nothing so beneficial as Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood. lam enjoying vigorous health from its use. E. A. Sharpe. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. m The stingiest man in the United States is said to live in Delphos. He got married to a home girl in order to save expenses: they walked around a block fora bridal tour; he bought her a nickel's worth of candy for a wedding present and then suggested that they, keep it for the children. She. I have never loved before. He. And why my precious? Surely there are others as worthy as I. She. — That wasn't it. I had indigestion so bad I could never endure their prattle, but I took a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and have never seen any sign of it since. Get it of all druggists. m

Jake McFeely returned from Chicago the latter part of last week. Miss Flora Confer, of the Deininger Millinery Store, Sundayed at Fort Wayne.' R. G Marcy, the Bluffton manufacturer was in the city several days last week. The Indiana oil field is said to be more profitable now t at any time since it was discovered. Natme works wonders and the enterprising dime museum managers gather them in and works the public at ten cents per head. Correspondents Wanted. Write to us if you want to learn what Dr. Caldwell’ Syrup Pepsin will do, or call at our store and get a trial bottle. Ten doses 10c. All druggists. m An exchange says that a printing office in a little town up in Michigan is always opened in the morning by prayer. This a rare exception to the rule, as from time immemorial, it has been the custom of a printing office to be opened by the devil, and is frequently closed by the Sheriff. Eat a whole cabbage if you want to. It wont hurt you. People used to think cabbage hung heavy in their stomachs. After each meal, no matter what they eat. take a dose of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. You will never suffer with constipation, indigestion, sick headache or stomach trouble. At all druggists. m The chair factory at Martinsville, has made to order a log cabin 12 by 14 feet, to be shipped to John Wanamaker, Philadelphia. It has a clapboard roof and the walls will be decorated with coon skins. The cabin will be placed in Mr. Wanamaker’s large retail store in Philadelphia. The best salve in the world is the Banner Salve. It is made from a prescription by a world wide known skin specialist and is positively the most healing salve for piles, burns, scalds, ulcers, running sores and all skin diseases. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m Nearly rhe whole South Africa plateau is covered with a long, slender grass, which under the fierce sun, is dry as tinder. Nothing can live in a veldt fire, and in its passing it leaves a desert. Under the cover of the smoke that arises, the Boers can utilize that strategy for which they are famous. Lingering la grippe cough. G. Vacher, 157 Osgood St.. Chicago, says: “My wife had a very severe case of la grippe, and it left her with a very bad cough. She tried a bbttle of Foley’s Honey and Tar and it gave immediate relief. A 50 cent bottle cured her cough, entirely.’’ Price 25c. and 50c. Holthouse, Callow . & Co. m Major Steele not only voted for the Porto Rico tariff bill, but defends it in an interview in the Indianapolis Press. Major Steele has been in Washington so long that lie is in danger of losing step with the people of the eleventh district. His vote is not in harmony with the views of the Republicans whom’ he represents.— Huntington Herald. Beware of a firm who constantly warns you about worthless imitations, etc. Their goods havn’t the merit they should have and they wish to prejudice you against goods of real merit. Putman Fadeless Dves are the brightest, fastest and best dyes in the world, and the only dyes that are sold on a positive guarantee. Sold by Smith, Yager & Fulk. 52-2 There is said to be no longer any question that the wheat crop in portions of Indiana is in bad condition, the result of the alternating thawing freezing weather of the past two months. Fruit trees appear to lie in especially good condition, and unless freezing weather prevails until late in the spring there will be a large crop of small fruit. Why do you commit Suicide? The man who lets a cold “run on" until he finds himself in consumption’s grasp is guilty of self-murder. There is one sure, infallible cure -Cleve- i land’s Lung Healer. Don’t delay. | We will give you a free trial' bottle. Large bottles, 25 cents, and 1 you can get your money back if it 1 doesn’t cure you. Holthouse. Callow 1 A Co. The cigar makers' union at Logansport has registered a •‘kick” because I the slot machines were recently or-1 dered discontinued by the police | board. It has claimed that since the j machines have been removed from the 1 cigar stores there is a falling off of at i least twenty-five per cent, in the cigar trade, which is rather hard on the dealers as well as those who make their living by making cigars. The union, it is said, will petition the police board to modify the order to such an extent that the machines can be replaced in the cigar stores, providing that no minors are allowed to play them. State of Ohio, City of Toledo. Lucas county, ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay One Hundred Dollars for each and ! every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh I Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to fiefore me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D.i 1886. |Seal.| A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the ■ blood and mucous surfaces of the sys- ■ tem. Send for testimonials, free. F. > J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hall's family Pills are the best. m I

Ben Wagoner left the first of the week for a several weeks trip through the south. Dr. DeVilbiss of Toledo, was in the city over Sunday, the guest of A. L. DeVilbiss and family. A little known fact. That the majority of serious diseases originate in disorder of the kidney,s Foley’s Kidney Cure is guaranteed. Try it today if you’re not feeling well. Holt house, Callow & Co. m Brokaw & Son h ive rented the Niblick building on Monroe street, formerly occupied by Frank Gast & Co's cigar store ( and are removing their second-hand store into that place. They will also add a stock of new goods and will soon fie prepared to give their trade whatever they desire. Mrs. Harriet Evans, Hindesdale, 111., writes, Inever rail to relieve my children from croup at once by using One Minute Cough Cure. I would not feel safe without it.” Quickly cures coughs, colds, grippe and all throat and lung diseases. Smith, Yager & Falk. ts A great many Dunkirk citizens think there is an element of “fake” about the solitary case of smallpox in quarantine there. They don’t believe it is smallpox. At any rate the disease has not spread. Even the people quarantined in the same house with Hancock have escaped the disease. Rev. W. E. Sitzer. W. Caton, N, Y., writes, “I had dyspepsia over twenty years, and tried doctors and medicines without benefit. I was persuaded to use Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and it helped me from the start. I believe it to be a panica for all forms of indigestion.” It digests what you eaE Smith, Yager & Falk. ts

We favor a law, says an exchange, for the prevention of cruelty to vegetation. Just think of digging potatoes, pulling the beard out of rye. threshing wheat, cutting the heart out of a watermelon, spilling the blood of a beet, tearing-the skin off a peach, breaking the neck of a squash, and other such outrages. Agency, la., Oct, 1899. Pepsin i Syrup Co., Monticello, 111. Gents: I have used Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup > Pepsin with marked success. I unhesitatingly recommend it to those > suffering with stomach trouble or constipation. It’s certainly a blessing to humanity. You are at liberty to use my testimonial. Yours respectfully, F. M. Wileoxen. By all druggists, m A bill to regulate marriage is now before the Colorado legislature. It ' places the granting of marriage licen- ■ ses in the hands of a board of three physicians in each county, which board is to have power to examine all applicants for marriage, and to refuse licenses to all who are judged mentally or physically unfit for married life. Doctors Never Disrgree On one point that celery is natures own remedy for all nerve diseases. Cleveland’s Celery Compound Tea cures all nerve troubles, indigestion, constipation, liver and kidney diseases. It purifies the blood and tones up the whole system. We will give you a free trial package. Large packages 25 cents. Holthouse, Callow & Co. In the year 1770, the following law was in force in England. How different today? “Whosoever shall entice into the bonds of M itrimony any Male Subject of Fez Majesty’ by rouge, white paint, Spanish cotton, steel corsets, crinoline, high heeled shoes or false hips, shall be prosecuted for witchcraft, and the marrige shall be declared null and void.” A Powder Till Explosion Removes everything in sight; so do drastic mineral pills, but they are mighty dangerous. Don’t dynamite delicate machinery of your with calomel. croton oil or aloes pills, when Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are gentle as a summer breeze, do the work perfectly. Cures headache, constipation. Only 25e at Page Blackburn’s drug store. In June the people of the United States will be counted for the twelfth time .since the establishment of our I government. It will require about j fifty thousand enumerators to take the census, and their work must be finj ished in one month’s time, or by the i first of July, 1900. That means that ■ about seventy-million people must Ibe recorded in thirty days, or at the I rate of two and a half million a day. Mrs. Calvin Zimmerman, Milesburg. I Pa., says, “As a speedy cure for | coughs, colds, croup and sore throat i One Minute Cough Cure is unequall- | ed. It is pleasant for children to take. I heartily recommend it to mothers.” It is the only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. It cures bronchitis, pneumonia, grip and throat and lungdiseases. It prevents consumption. Smith, Yager & Falk, ts Misses Margie and Ethel Hanna, of Fort Wayne, were the guests of Mrs. P. B. Thomas several days this week. His Life was Saved. Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen lof Hannibal. Mo., lately had a won'dI erful deliverance from a frightful i death. In telling of it he says: “I I was taken with typhoid fever, that i ran into pneumonia. My lungs bei came hardened. I was so weak I | couldn’t sit up in bed. Nothing i helped me. I expected to soon die lof consumption, when I heard of Dr. King's New Discovery. One bottle ■ gave great relief. I continued to use ! it. and now am well and strong. I can't say too much in its praise.” This marvellous medicine is the surest and quickest cure in the’world for all I throat and lung trouble. Regular sizes 50 cents and SI. Trial bottles ! free at Page Blackburn's drug store; | every bottle guaranteed.

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{Beautiful! {Women I « There are few women as beau- a « tiful as they might be. Powder " g and paint and cosmetics don’t ■ n make good looks. Beauty is a 2 simply an impossibility without ® health. Beautiful women are • «> few because healthy women are ® ® few. The way to have a fair § J face and a well-rounded figure g ts is to take S i WiiciO i 1 Female Regulator! 2 This is that old and time-tried J • medicine that cures all female ■ • troubles and weaknesses and * J drains. It makes no difference J ■ what the doctors call the trou- ■ ■ ble, if there is anything the 2 2 matter in the distinctly feminine 2 » organs, Bradfield’s Fe» • " male Regulator will help « 2 and cure it. It is good for ir- J ■ regular br painful menstruation; «■ h for leucorrhoea, for falling of the 2 § womb, for nervousness, head- 2 ® ache, backache and dizziness. • • Take it and get well. Then " 2 your old-time girlish features J ■ and figure will be restored. ■ Sold by druggists forsl a bottle. ■ ■ THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ■ ® ATLANTA, GA. ® ®icK»n«B«isni®iii®s»Rs>aaiaa»

There is some talk of the two wings of the Dunkard church unitingagain. The branches are known as the “old order” and the “conservatives,” and the main difference between them is the manner of dress, the latter being the more liberal and fashionable. It is expected that some concessions will be made by each branch, and that they will soon be one again. The annual meeting of the conservatives this year will be held at North Manchester, while the old order will meet at Camden. Such is the testimony of thoifsands concerning Brown’s Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known for the liver, kidneys and bowels, a positive cure for dyspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, nervousness, constipation and loss of sleep. If you suffer try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price 5c ets. Yi-Ki cures coms and warts. It 7 Unclaimed letters at the postoffice this week are for John B. Keller, Will Baird, John Clark, Jos Dague, F. F. Durst, Roylie Donnell, S. Essex, M. D.. Mrs. L,ena Gafford, Mrs. M. E. Hill, Geo. H. Bunner, Mrs. Effie Merriman, John C. Maramer. Mary Elieerrvman, Marged Mires, Miss Myrtle Miller, D. O’Lea. Mrs. Bell Marks, Mrs. Tom Vale, Henry Wagoner,Mrs. H. A. Winans, J. G. Woodruff. If troubled with rheumatism, give Chamberlain’s Pain Balm a trial. It will not cost you a cent if it does no good. One application will relieve the pain. It also cures sprains and b-uises in one-third the time requi ed by any ather treatment. Cuts’ burns, frostbites, quinsey, pains in the side and chest, glandular and other swellings are quickly cured by applying it. Every bottle warranted. Price 25 and 50 cts. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m In Jacksonville, Fla., has just been established an ostrich farm, which is the wonder of all the country about. The ancestors of these ostriches were brought in a sailing vessel from South Africa their home to California. Os the fifty-two imigrants two died on the way. The others suffered a rapid decline in the California climate. The few that lived were taken to Florida, where a process of rapid breeding was carried on, and the present flourishing colony is the result. Volcanic Eruptions. Are grand, but skin eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen’s Arnica Salvo cures them; also old. running and fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, warts, cuts, braises, burns, scalds, chapped hands, chilblains. Best pile cure on earth. Drives out pains and aches. Only 25 cts. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Page Blackburn, druggist. A Huntington county farmer, Henry Weike, with his team, pulled some timber out of a stream on his land and sawed the logs into stove wood. One proved to be hollow and was filled with ice. When one of the blocks fell off it was found that tho saw had cut through something besides wood and ice. Investigation showed that fish were imbedded in the ice and in the log were found twelve suckers and one large bull frog. It is very hard to stand by and see our dear ones suffer while awaiting the arrival of the doctor. An Albany, N. Y., dairyman called at the drug store there for a doctor to call and see his child, then very sick with croup. Not finding the doctor in he left word for'him to come at once upon his return. He also bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, which he hoped would give come relief until the doctor should arrive. In a tew hours he returned, saying that the doctor need not come, as the child was much better. The druggist. Mr. Otto Scholtz. says the family has since recommended Cliamberlain's Cough remedy to their neighbors and friends until tie has a constant demand for it from all parts of the country. For sale by Holthouse, Callow A Co. m